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Thousands at Funeral of Jewish Couple Slain in Mumbai

Lubavitch Community Says It Will Raise Orphan Boy

On the Mount of Olives and overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem, Gavriel and Rivka Hotzberg were finally laid to rest.
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and boys pray next to the bodies of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife,... Expand
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Victims of Mumbai Terror Assault

An appeal has already been launched to reopen Mumbai's Chabad House. Rivka Holtzberg's parents have volunteered to run it until new emissaries can be found.

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The Holtzbergs were among six Lubavitcher Jews who died in the terror assault. Others included another American, Leib Teitelbaum, a 38-year-old New Yorker who lived in Israel. Teitelbaum had gone to Mumbai to supervise kosher food preparation.

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